Real Selves

Identity Internet users login social media sites everyday. The world has become a large global identification tag that allows the user to create and maintain online profiles that has become the most significant process in promoting your image or expanding your social network. Your username tells people who you are. It tells them what you support and sometimes, even your motives for being there. You need to figure out who you are going to be when crating your profile... The question we have to ask a user is: is the person presenting who they are or they are presenting a fictional character or representing a brand. Most people present their ideal selves versus the real self. The research suggests your “real selves” is what you are, your attributes, characteristics and your personality. Your “ideal selves” versus a real self has become more and more prevalent on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter. Instagram, Google+, Pinterest and even Linked In. From a societal standpoint, many people are driven by competition, achievement, and status created by our ideal selves. When a profile is created on a social media sites, many people consider the profile to be presentations of who we are, but the user can also edit their profiles as much as they want to share information that engages more friends to follow. Http//www. …show more content…
Identity was a function of predefined social rules and a traditional system of myths, which provided orientation and religious sanctions to define one‘s place in the world. (para 1, 231 kellner,media culture) Social media has gain a distance from tradition by crossing boundaries where one can chose and make, and then remake one’s identity as one’s life possibilities change and expand or contract. Media culture plays key roles in the structuring of contemporary identity and shaping thought and